Trump deposed in defamation suit filed by E. Jean Carroll

Trump deposed inside defamation outfit filed by E. Jean Carroll

NEW YORK (AP) ” Former President Donald Trump answered questions under oath Wednesday inside a legal action filed by E. Jean Carroll, a magazine columnist who says he raped her inside the mid-1990s inside a dividing store dressing room.

The deposition gave Carroll™s lawyers a chance to interrogate Trump concerning the assault allegations, while well while statements he made inside 2019 when she told her tale publicly for the earliest time.

Details on how the deposition went weren™t straight away disclosed.

We™re pleased that on behalf of our client, E. Jean Carroll, we were intelligent to lay clasp of Donald Trump™s deposition today. We are not intelligent to remark further, the rules and regulations firm representing her, Kaplan Hecker & Fink, said inside a statement.

Trump has said Carroll™s rape allegation is a hoax with every one other accompanied by a lie.

His legal team worked for years to delay his deposition inside the lawsuit, which was filed when the Republican was still president. A confederate judge last week rejected Trump™s request for another delay, saying he couldn™t sprint the timepiece not here on plaintiff™s try to gain a remedy for what allegedly was a solemn wrong.

Trump™s lawyers didn™t straight away respond Wednesday to a appeal for remark concerning the deposition.

Carroll was to have been questioned by Trump™s lawyers last Friday. Neither her attorneys nor Trump™s have responded to questions concerning how that deposition went.

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The lawyers too haven™t disclosed whether Trump™s deposition was done inside human being or remotely, over video. Trump was inside Florida on Wednesday. The legal action is actuality handled inside a court of rules and regulations inside New York City.

Anything Trump said throughout his deposition could potentially exist used while proof inside an upcoming secular trial. He hasn™t faced some criminal charges related to Carroll™s allegations, with every one other accompanied by some prosecution is unlikely. The deadline for criminal charges over alleged reproductive assaults that occurred inside the 1990s has lengthy expired.

Similar legal deadlines too applied to secular lawsuits claiming reproductive assault. As a result, Carroll chose to sue Trump for defamation over comments he made inside 2019 when he denied some wrongdoing. She maintains that her reputation was damaged by his denials with every one other accompanied by attacks on her credibility with every one other accompanied by character.

However, New York lawmakers not long ago gave people a one-year window to lay clasp of elderly reproductive assault claims to secular courts. Carroll™s legal practitioner has told the court of rules and regulations she intends to file such a outfit opposed to Trump following that window opens inside late November.

According to Carroll™s account, she bumped into Trump while the set of two were shopping at the Bergdorf Goodman store across Fifth Avenue from Trump Tower. At the time, Carroll was on television while the host of an advice program, Ask E. Jean.

She said the set of two engaged inside affectionate banter while she tried to assist him pick not here a gift. But when they were briefly all alone inside a dressing room, she said he pulled down her tights with every one other accompanied by raped her.

In a recent statement, Trump called that tale a complete con job.

I don™t know this woman, have no indeed idea who she is, other than it seems she got a painting of me numerous years ago, accompanied by her husband, shaking my hand on a reception dash at a fame non-profit-making organization event, Trump said.

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Associated Press writers Jill Colvin with every one other accompanied by Michael R. Sisak contributed.